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L.A. mayor's race: The world isn't watching either
This Los Angeles mayoral election isn’t exactly setting the city's electorate on fire. Nor the world, for that matter. It’s so low key that I was surprised to see a very focused piece in the Guardian, Britain’s liberal national...
Tags: Voting, Chicago Elections, Los Angeles Lakers, Local Elections, Elections
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Guatemala war crimes trial rulings spur protests
MEXICO CITY — Contradictory court judgments in the war crimes trial of former Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt this week set off protests in Guatemala City and prompted rebukes from human rights organizations around the world. On Friday,...
Tags: Civil Rights, Prosecution, International Court or Tribunal, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights
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In Guatemala, a twist as genocide trial nears end
MEXICO CITY — On the first day of trial, a witness named Bernardo Bernal recounted how, as a 9-year-old in the spring of 1983, he hid in a stream and watched Guatemalan soldiers kill his parents and two younger brothers. On the second day of...Tags: Civil Rights, Dismemberment, Lawyers, International Court or Tribunal, Crime, Law and Justice
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Small transit fare increase adds up fast in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY — There were fewer riders than normal on driver Octavio Diaz's bus early Wednesday, the first day that a transit fare hike raised costs from about 4 pesos to 5 for a short trip, a difference equivalent to a mere 8 cents. But many...Tags: Public Transportation, Mexico
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Pedro Ramirez Vazquez dies at 94; architect changed the face of Mexico City
Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, an architect who changed the face of Mexico City by designing a number of landmark modernist structures, died on Tuesday, his 94th birthday. The cause was pneumonia, according to Mexico's National Council for Culture and the Arts....
Tags: Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, Architecture, Culture
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'Silenced Screams' takes on Mexico's drug war at Cal State L.A.
An estimated 70,000 people have been killed in Mexico's brutal drug-cartel wars over the past six years. Those costs are horrific enough. But there are also collateral damages, including a precipitous drop-off in tourism that has dented Mexico's...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Entertainment, Music
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Europol: Mexican drug cartels want a foothold in Europe
MEXICO CITY—Mexican drug cartels are striving to become “key players in the European drugs market,” Europol officials said Friday. Their statement, issued from Europol headquarters in the Hague, said that Mexican criminals have...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Corporate Crime, Safety of Citizens, Methamphetamine (drug), Global Expansion
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Mexico sues billionaire Carlos Slim's Telmex over phone fees
MEXICO CITY — In an unusual legal action against the world's richest man, Mexico is suing the telecommunications giant Telmex for charging allegedly illegal fees that were tacked on to what are already some of the highest phone rates among developed...Tags: Litigation, Carlos Slim, Embezzlement, Crime, Law and Justice, Corporate Crime
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Art market doldrums exhibited at Mexico City's annual bazaar
MEXICO CITY -- Skull motifs. Dollar bills pasted on a wall. Phrases written in neon lights. Figures cut out of photographs. Or, if you like, a bunch of lines on paper. It's hardly surprising that the offerings at Zona Maco, the Mexico City...
Tags: Artists, Arts, Arts and Culture, Mexico, Fine Artists
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Mexico government downplays deadly violence
MEXICO CITY — The new government of Mexican President Enrique Peņa Nieto has sought to downplay the deadly violence that has long haunted much of Mexico and that he repeatedly pledged to reduce. But the country's killers aren't cooperating....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, Think Tanks, National Government, Murder
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I went down to the crossroads, with books about L.A.
It isn’t every day that you can read from a book and feel the words come to life before your eyes. That happened to me Wednesday morning, at Union Station, at an event designed to make passing L.A. commuters hip to the upcoming Los Angeles Times...
Tags: Science and Technology, Union (McHenry, Illinois), Arts and Culture, Electronics, Mexico
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In Gladstone Park, Mom's knows best
Cuernavaca, in the state of Morelos, an hour's drive south of Mexico City, can claim in its culinary heritage a curious dish unfamiliar to many Chicagoans: tacos acorazados. This style of taco is a beloved regional idiosyncrasy, but also something Paula...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Chile, Dining and Drinking, Rentals, Lifestyle and Leisure
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